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Big Ag/USDA Could Run Organic Leafy Green Growers out of Business

20-Jul-2011

Corporate agribusiness wants to tell the rest of us how to farm, and
shut anyone out of the market who does not follow their
one-size-fits-all “food safety” standards for leafy green vegetables.
The USDA is supporting their plan, which, if accepted, will allow a
committee of industry representatives, lobbyists and other officials to
write a set of so-called food safety standards for the entire leafy
green farming community—this could competitively injure smaller, local and organic producers.